The American Majority Experts

These economists, academics and organization leaders support the American Majority position on many of the key economic issues being debated in Washington and are qualified to represent those positions in the media or other forums. This list includes:

  • Members of the Citizens' Commission on Jobs, Deficits and America's Economic Future
  • Experts from the Economic Policy Institute/Demos/Century Foundation "Our Fiscal Security" project
  • Endorsers of the Campaign for America's Future's 2010 "Don't Kill Jobs and Growth In the Name of Deficit Reduction" statement
  • Signers of The Daily Beast "Get America Back To Work!" manifesto

We recommend you contact them through their respective organizations. Members of the media who need assistance may email communications director Liz Rose at lrose@ourfuture.org.

Citizens' Commission on Jobs, Deficits and America's Economic Future
ourfuture.org/citizenscommission

Just before the co-chairs of the White House Commission on Fiscal Responsibility and Reform released their recommendations on addressing the federal budget deficit, this alternative commission released its own report. Calling those recommendations “fundamentally misguided,” the Citizens’ Commission aimed at taking the economic debate away from the dangerous direction of austerity.

Dean Baker, Center for Economic and Policy Research

Deepak Bhargava, Center for Community Change

Angela Glover Blackwell, PolicyLink

Jeff Blum, USAction

Robert Borosage, Campaign for America’s Future

Darcy Burner, ProgressiveCongress.org

Larry Cohen, Communications Workers of America, American Rights at Work

Teresa Ghilarducci, Schwartz Chair Economic Policy Analysis, The New School for Social Research

Heidi Hartmann, Institute for Women’s Policy Research

Mary Kay Henry, Service Employees International Union

Roger Hickey, Campaign for America’s Future

Rob Johnson, Institute for New Economic Thinking

Joan Kuriansky, Wider Opportunities for Women

Robert Kuttner, The American Prospect

Jeff Madrick, Roosevelt Institute, The New School for Social Research

Dr. Julianne Malveaux, Bennett College for Women

Robert Pollin, Political Economy Research Institute, University of Massachusetts, Amherst

Robert B. Reich, former Labor secretary, University of California, Berkley

Don Riegle, former Democratic senator from Michigan

Charles Rodgers, New Community Fund

Deborah Weinstein, Coalition on Human Needs

Note: The Citizens’ Commission was inspired to action in part to challenge the one-sided media coverage lavished on the Simpson-Bowles National Commission on Fiscal Responsibility and Reform, the Pew-Peterson Commission on Budget Reform and the Bipartisan Policy Center Debt Reduction Task Force. Its deliberations were also informed by recent work by the Economic Policy Institute, especially the report "America’s Economy: A Budget Blueprint for Economic Recovery and Fiscal Responsibility"; a deficit-reduction proposal by Rep. Jan Schakowsky, a member of the fiscal responsibility commission, that accomplishes deficit reduction without making cuts to essential federal expenditures that benefit the middle class or are crucial to future growth; and the work of Robert Greenstein, president of the Center for Budget and Policy Priorities.

Economic Policy Institute/Demos/Century Foundation "Our Fiscal Security"
ourfiscalsecurity.org

This initiative promotes "an economic path that achieves fiscal responsibility without undermining our national strength."

Greg Anrig, The Century Foundation

Josh Bivens, Economic Policy Institute

Tamara Draut, Demos

Andrew Fieldhouse, Economic Policy Institute

Teresa Ghilarducci, Demos

Robert Hiltonsmith, Demos

John Irons, Economic Institute

Robert Kuttner, Demos

Maggie Mahar, The Century Foundation

Heather McGhee, Demos

Lawrence Mishel, Economic Policy Institute

Monique Morrissey, Economic Policy Institute

Ethan Pollack, Economic Policy Institute

Rebecca Theiss, Economic Policy Institute

"Don't Kill Jobs and Growth In The Name of Deficit Reduction"
dontkilljobs.org

More than 300 economists and major civic leaders publicly shared their grave concern that “austerity economics” will derail an already weak economic recovery. They back a progressive approach that makes putting people back to work the top priority.

Economists

Tanweer Akram, ING Investment Management

Randy Albelda, University of Massachusetts, Boston

Sylvia Allegretto, University of California, Berkeley

Gar Alperovitz, University of Maryland

Nancy Altman, Social Security Works

Eileen Appelbaum, Rutgers University

Diane Archer, Institute for America's Future

Michael Ash, University of Massachusetts, Amherst

Nahid Aslanbeigui, Monmouth University

Reuven Avi-Yonah, University of Michigan

Hillel Bachrach, 20/20 HealthCare Partners LLC

M. V. Lee Badgett, University of Massachusetts, Amherst

Ron Baiman, Center for Tax and Budget Accountability

Dean Baker, Center for Economic and Policy Research

Nesecan Balkan, Hamilton College

Nina Banks, Bucknell University

William Barclay, Chicago Political Economy Group

Chuck Barone, Dickinson College

Rosemary Batt, Cornell University

Michael Belzer, Wayne State University

Lourdes Beneria, Cornell University

Barbara R Bergmann, American University

Alexandra Bernasek, Colorado State University

Cihan Bilginsoy, University of Utah

Cyrus Bina, University of Minnesota, Morris

Angela Glover Blackwell, PolicyLink

Howard Botwinick, State University of New York, Cortland

Roger Bove, West Chester University (Retired)

Clair Brown, University of California Berkeley

E. Richard Brown, University of California, Los Angeles

Robert Buchele, Smith College

Cruz Bueno, University of Massachusetts, Amherst

Jim Campen, University of Massachusetts, Boston, Emeritus

Colin S. Cavell, Ph.D., University of Bahrain American Studies Center

John Chasse, Association for Evolutionary Economics

Howard Chernick, City University of New York

Paul Christensen, Hofstra University

Steve Clemons, New America Foundation

Anne Cobb, Empire State College

Lizabeth Cohen, Harvard University

James Crotty, University of Massachusetts, Amherst

James Cypher, Universidad Autãnoma de Zacatecas

Diana Dai, Diana Dai Communications Inc.

Peter Damiano, University of Iowa

Anita Dancs, Western New England College

Jane D'Arista, Political Economy Research Institute, University of Massachusetts, Amherst

Paul A David, Stanford University

Paul Davidson, University of Tennessee, Knoxville

Susan M. Davis, Buffalo State College

Charles Davis, Indiana University

Anthony D'Costa, Asia Research Centre

Amy B. Dean, Author

Gregory DeFreitas, Hofstra University

James Devine, Loyola Marymount University

Ranjit Dighe, State University of New York, Oswego

G. William Domhoff, University of California, Santa Cruz

Peter Dorman, Evergreen State College

Amitava Dutt, University of Notre Dame

Gary Dymski, University of California, Riverside

Gary Edelman

Barbara Ehrenreich, Author, Nickeled and Dimed

Justin Elardo, Portland Community College

Brian England, University of Utah

Gerald Epstein, Political Economy Research Institute, University of Massachusetts, Amherst

Jeff Faux, Economic Policy Institute

Steven Fazzari, Washington University

Rashi Fein, Harvard University

Susan Feiner, University of Southern Maine

Thomas Ferguson, University of Massachusetts, Boston and Roosevelt Institute

Rudy Fichtenbaum, Wright State University

David Fields, University of Utah Economics Department

Catherine Finnoff, University of Massachusetts, Amherst

Richard Flacks, University of California, Santa Barbara

Robert Francis, Shoreline Community College

Mark Friedman, Third Culture

James K. Galbraith, University of Texas, Austin, Economists for Peace and Security

William Ganley, Buffalo State College

Angel Garcia Banchs, Universidad Central de Venezuela

David George, La Salle University

Christophre Georges, Hamilton College

Arthur Gerds

Teresa Ghilarducci, Schwartz Chair Economic Policy Analysis, The New School for Social Research

Helen Ginsburg, Brooklyn College and National Jobs for All Coalition

Lonnie Golden, Penn State, Abington

Stephen Gorin, Plymouth State University

Ulla Grapard, Colgate University

Carole Green, University of South Florida

Lawrence Grossberg, University of North Carolina

Robert Guttmann, Hofstra University

Jacob Hacker, Yale University

John Battaile Hall, Portland State University

Lori Hansen, Former Member, Senate Democrat Social Security Advisory Board

Martin Hart-Landsberg, Lewis and Clark College

Heidi Hartmann, Institute for Women's Policy Research

John Harvey, Texas Christian University

Carol Heim, University of Massachusetts, Amherst

James Heintz, University of Massachusetts

Susan Helper, Case Western Reserve University

John Henry, University of Missouri-Kansas City

Conrad Herold, Hofstra University

Adam Hersh, University of Massachusetts

Gillian Hewitson, University of Sydney

Robin Hhnel, Portland State University

Joan Hoffman, John Jay College of Criminal Justice

Michael Inttriligator, University of California, Los Angeles

Dorene Isenberg, University of Redlands

Ken Jacobs, University of California, Berkeley Center for Labor Research and Education

Peter Jacobson, University of Michigan School of Public Health

Robert Johnson, Roosevelt Institute

Helene Jorgensen, Author

Arne Kalleberg, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill

J K Kapler, University of Massachusetts, Boston

Victor Kasper Jr., Buffalo State College

Jeffrey Keefe, Rutgers University

Mary King, Portland State University

Eric Kingson, Syracuse University

Andrew Kohen, James Madison University, Emeritus

Ben Kohl, Temple University

Gerald F. Kominski, University of California, Los Angeles School of Public Health

Brent Kramer, City University of New York

Peter Karl Kresl, Bucknell University Emeritus

Robert Kuttner, American Prospect

Supriya Lahiri, University of Massachusetts, Lowell

Thomas Lambert, Indiana University, Southeast

Dr. Tom Larson, California State University, Los Angeles

Keith Leitich, Central & East Asian Affairs analyst

Margaret Levenstein, University of Michigan

Charles Levenstein, University of Massachusetts, Lowell

Henry Levin, Columbia University

Marc Levine, University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee

Mark Levinson, Service Employees International Union

Victor Lippit, University of California, Riverside

Robert Lynch, Washington College

Catherine Lynde, University of Massachusetts, Boston

Arthur MacEwan, University of Massachusetts, Boston, Emeritus

Christopher Mackin, Ownership Associates, Inc.

Yahya Madra, Gettysburg College

Jeff Madrick, Roosevelt Institute, The New School for Social Research

Mark Maier, Glendale Community College

Jean Maier, United States Society for Ecological Economics

Julianne Malveaux, Bennett College for Women

Arindam Mandal, Siena College

John Mannah, The New School for Social Research

Theodore Marmor, Yale University

Julie Matthaei, Wellesley College

Walter W. McMahon, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign

Joseph Medley, University of Southern Maine

Michael Meeropol, Western New England College, Emeritus

Martin Melkonian, Hofstra University

John Messier, University of Maine, Farmington

Peter Meyer, The E.P. Systems Group, Inc.

Thomas Michl, Colgate University

Marcelo Milan, University of Wisconsin, Parkside

William Milberg, The New School for Social Research

Lawrence Mishel, Economic Policy Institute

Vernon Mogensen, Kingsborough Community College, City University of New York

Michael Morrill, Keystone Progress

Philip Moss, University of Massachusetts, Lowell

Tracy Mott, University of Denver

Jamee Moudud, Sarah Lawrence College

Dedrick Muhammad, Institute for Policy Studies

Kevin Murphy, Oakland University

Michael Murray, Bates College

Michele Naples, The College of New Jersey

Julie Nelson, University of Massachusetts, Boston

Immanuel Ness, Brooklyn College, City University of New York

Katherine Newman, Johns Hopkins University

Eric Nilsson, California State, University San Bernardino

Jack Norman, Institute for Wisconsin's Future

Michael Nuwer, State University of New York, Potsdam

Paulette Olson, Wright State University

Mary Orisich, Holyoke Community College

Pierre Ostiguy, Bard College

Christine Owens, National Employment Law Project

Aaron Pacitti, Siena College

Spencer Pack, Connecticut College

Robert Pandolfo, analyst

Dimitri Papadimitriou, Levy Economics Institute

Richard Parker, Kennedy School, Harvard University

James Parrott, Fiscal Policy Institute

Paul Peloquin, Paul J. Peloquin for State Senator

M. Stephen Pendleton, Buffalo State College

Michael Perelman, California State University, Chico

Tova Perlmutter, Sugar Law Center for Economic & Social Justice

Rick Perlstein, Author

Joseph Persky, University of Illinois, Chicago

Karl Petrick, Western New England College

John Philo, Sugar Law Center for Economic and Social Justice

Paul Pieper, University of Illinois, Chicago

Bruce Pietrykowski, University of Michigan-Dearborn

Karen Rosel Polenske, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Robert Pollin, Political Economy Research Institute, University of Massachusetts, Amherst

Marilyn Power, Sarah Lawrence College

Mark Price, Keystone Research Center

Edith Rasell, United Church of Christ Justice & Witness Ministries

Michael Reich, University of California, Berkeley

Robert B. Reich, former Labor Secretary, University of California, Berkeley

Cordelia Reimers, Hunter College, City University of New York

Joseph Ricciardi, Babson College

Malcolm Robinson, Thomas More College

John Roche, St. John Fisher College

James Rock, University of Utah

Charles Rock, Rollins College

John Roemer, Yale University

Sergio Romero, Boise State University

Jaime Ros, University of Notre Dame

Michael Rosen, Milwaukee Area Technical College

Sam Rosenberg, Roosevelt University

Joshua Rosenbloom, University of Kansas

David Rosnick, Center for Economic and Policy Research

Lynda Rush, California State Polytechnic University, Pomona

Hector Saez, Beyond Growth

John Sarich, Institute of Global Communications

Harwood Schaffer, University of Tennessee

Ted Schmidt, Buffalo State College

John Schmitt, Center for Economic and Policy Research

Victor Schoenbach, University of North Carolina, Gillings School of Public Health

Sanford Schram, Bryn Mawr College

Sherle R. Schwenninger, Economic Growth Program, New America Foundation

Elliott Sclar, Columbia University

Stephanie Seguino, University of Vermont

Jean Shackelford, Bucknell University

Sumitra Shah, St. John's University

Derek Shearer, Occidental College

Kristen Sheeran, Economics for Equity and Environment Network

Heidi Shierholz, Economic Policy Institute

Richard Shirey, Siena College

Laurence Shute, California State Polytechnic University, Pomona

Alexandra Sidiropoulos, Miskin & Tsui-Yip LLP

Mark Silverman, Steptoe & Johnson LLP

Peter Skott, University of Massachusetts, Amherst

Lewis Smith, retired

Vince Snowberger, Economist, retired

Case Sprenkle, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign

James Ron Stanfield, Colorado State University, Emeritus

Casey Stanton, Transportation Equity Network

Howard Stein, University of Michigan

Mary Stevenson, University of Massachusetts, Boston

James Stewart, Penn State University

Jeffrey Stewart, University of Cincinnati

Frank Stricker, California State University, Dominguez Hills

Peter Temin, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

David Terkla, University of Massachusetts, Boston

Frank Thompson, University of Michigan

Chris Tilly, University of California, Los Angeles

Jim Tober, Marlboro College

John Tower, Retired professor of economics

Brandon Tracy,

Scott Trees, Siena College

Dale Tussing, Syracuse University

Leanne Ussher, Queens College, City University of New York

David Vail, Bowdoin College

Marjolein van der Veen, The Nation

Bryan Van Namen, Economic Blogger

Matt Vidal, King's College London

Rudiger von Arnim, University of Utah

Valerie Voorheis, Marlboro College

Paula Voos, Rutgers University

Steven Wallace, University of California, Los Angeles, School of Public Health

Paul Wallace, retired

Joseph Washington

Lucy Law Webster, Economists for Peace and Security

John Weeks, University of London, Emeritus

David Weiman, Barnard College, Columbia University

Scott A. Weir

Mark Weisbrot, Center for Economic and Policy Research

Charles Weise, Gettysburg College

Thomas Weisskopf, University of Michigan

Ralph Whitehead, University of Massachusetts, Amherst

Jeannette Wicks-Lim, Political Economy Research Institute University of Massachusetts, Amherst

Roger Wilkins, Campaign for America's Future

John Willoughby, American University

Martin H. Wolfson, University of Notre Dame

Yavuz Yasar, University of Denver

June Zaccone, National Jobs for All Coalition

Ajit Zacharias, Levy Economics Institute

David Zalewski, Providence College

James M. Zelenski, Regis University

Michael Zimmerman, University of Colorado

Frederick Zimmerman, University of California, Los Angeles

Ben Zipperer, University of Massachusetts, Amherst

Organizations

Deepak Bhargava, Center for Community Change

Jeff Blum, USAction

James Boland, International Union of Bricklayers and Allied Craftworkers

Robert Borosage, Campaign for America's Future

Anna Burger, Service Employees International Union

Darcy Burner, Progressive Congress Action Fund

Nancy Duff Campbell, National Women's Law Center

Rea Carey, National Gay and Lesbian Task Force Action Fund

Ashley Carson, Older Women's League

Darryl Fagin, Americans for Democratic Action, Inc.

Rabbi Michael Feinberg, Greater New York Labor-Religion Coalition

Leo Gerard, United Steelworkers of America

Robert Greenwald, Brave New Films

Mary Kay Henry, Service Employees International Union

Roger Hickey, Campaign for America's Future

Rev Jesse Jackson, Rainbow-PUSH Coalition

Avis Jones-DeWeever, National Council of Negro Women

Bob King, United Auto Workers Union

Joan Kuriansky, Wider Opportunities for Women

Antonio Lodico, Mon Valley Unemployed Committee

Meizhu Lui, Closing the Racial Wealth Gap, Insight Center for Community Econ

Ben Manski, Liberty Tree Foundation

Don Mathis, Community Action Partnership

Gerald McEntee, American Federation of State County and Municipal Employees

Brian Miller, United for a Fair Economy

Terry O'Neill, National Organization for Women

Robert Patrician, Communications Workers of America

Miles Rapoport, Demos

Charles Rodgers, New Community Fund

Justin Ruben, MoveOn.org

Steven Schwartz, Ballot Initiative Strategy Center

Karen See, Coalition of Labor Union Women

Curtis Skinner, National Center for Children in Poverty

Ted Smukler, Interfaith Worker Justice

Margery Tabankin, The Streisand Foundation

Scott Wallace, Wallace Global Fund

Deborah Weinstein, Coalition on Human Needs

Michael J. Wilson, Americans for Democratic Action

The Daily Beast "Get America Back To Work!" Manifesto
thedailybeast.com

These leaders endorsed a statement calling for more government stimulus and tax credits to put Americans back to work. "Making deficit reduction the first target ... will prolong the great recession, harm the social cohesion of the country, and continue inflicting unnecessary hardship on millions of Americans."

Henry Aaron, The Brookings Institution

Tanweer Akram, ING Investment Management

Sylvia A. Allegretto, University of California, Berkeley

Gar Alperovitz, University of Maryland

Kenneth Arrow, Stanford University

Marshall Auerback, Roosevelt Institute

Radhika Balakrishnan, Rutgers University

Edward Barbier, University of Wyoming

Michael Belzer, Wayne State University

Peter Beinart, City University of New York

Cihan Bilginsoy, University of Utah

Alan Blinder, Princeton University

Barry Bluestone, Northwestern University

Sidney Blumenthal, Author

Howard Botwinick, State University of New York, Cortland

Heather Boushey, Center for American Progress

Dagobert Brito, Rice University

Clair Brown, University of California, Berkeley

Jim Campen, University of Massachusetts, Boston, Emeritus

John Cassidy, The New Yorker

John Chasse, State University of New York, Brockport

Woodrow Clark, Clark Strategic Partners

Lizabeth Cohen, Harvard University

James Devine, Loyola Marymount University

Malcolm Dole, University of California, Los Angeles

James Dorman, Evergreen State College

Robert Drago, Institute for Women’s Policy Research

Gary Dymski, University of California, Riverside

Zohreh Emami, Alverno College

Gerald Epstein, Political Economy Research Institute, University of Massachusetts, Amherst

Sir Harold Evans, journalist

Rudy Fichtenbaum, Wright State University

Robert H. Frank, Cornell University

Nancy Folbre University of Massachusetts, Amherst

Anthony Gabb, St. John’s University

Ulla Grapard, Colgate University

Daphne Greenwood, University of Colorado, Colorado Springs

Robin Hahnel, American University

Carol Heim, University of Massachusetts, Amherst

James Heintz, Political Economy Research Institute, University of Massachusetts, Amherst

Susan Helper, Case Western Reserve University

Jim Hoge, Foreign Affairs

Harry Holzer, Georgetown University

Michael D. Intriligator, University of California

Dorene Isenberg, University of Redlands

Fadhel Kaboub, Denison University

J.K. Kapler, University of Massachusetts, Boston

Daniel Kevles, Yale University

Mary King, Portland State University

Peter Kresl, Bucknell University

Melaku Lakew, Richard Stockton College of New Jersey

Thomas Lambert, Indiana University-Purdue University, Indianapolis

Henry Levin, Columbia University

David I. Levine, University of California, Berkeley

Victor D. Lippit, University of California, Riverside

Catherine Lynde, University of Massachusetts, Boston

Robert Lynch, Washington College

Arthur MacEwan, University of Massachusetts, Boston, Emeritus

Richard MacMinn, Illinois State University

Eric Maskin, Princeton University

Patrick Mason, Florida State University

Peter Hans Matthews, Middlebury College

Hannah McKinney, Kalamazoo College, Vice Mayor City of Kalamazoo, Michigan

Daniel McFadden, University of California, Berkeley

Walter W. McMahon, University of Illinois, Champaign-Urbana, Emeritus

Ellen Meara, Harvard University

Peter B. Meyer, University of Louisville, Emeritus

Marcelo Milan, University of Wisconsin, Parkside

Ida Mirzale, The Ohio State University

Tracy Mott, University of Denver

Adil Mouhammed, University of Illinois, Springfield

Kevin Murphy, Oakland University

Michael Nuwer, State University of New York, Potsdam

Erik Olsen, University of Missouri,Kansas City

Dimitri Papadimitriou, The Levy Economics Institute

Richard Parker, Harvard University

James Parrott, Fiscal Policy Institute

M. Stephen Pendleton, Buffalo State College

Michael Perelman, California State University, Chico

Chris Phillips, Somerset Community College

Paul Pieper, University of Illinois, Chicago

Bruce Pietrykowski, University of Michigan, Dearborn

Robert Pollin, Political Economy Research Institute, University of Massachusetts, Amherst

Mark Price, Keystone Research Center

Robert Reich, former Labor secretary, University of California, Berkley

David Reynolds, Christ’s College

Malcolm B. Robinson, Thomas More College

John Roche, St. John Fisher College

John E. Roemer, Yale University

Jaime Ros, University of Notre Dame

Samuel Rosenberg, Roosevelt University

Simon Schama, Columbia University.

Juliet Schor, Boston College

Robert Scott,Economic International Economist

Stephanie Seguino, University of Vermont

Anwar Shaikh, The New School

Derek Shearer, Occidental College

Heidi Shierholz, Economic Policy Institute

Richard Sims, National Education Association

Peter Skott, University of Massachusetts, Amherst

Robert Solow, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Emeritus

Case Sprenkle, University of Illinois, Emeritus

Mary Huff Stevenson, University of Massachusetts, Boston

James B. Stewart, Penn State University

Joseph Stiglitz, Nobel laureate in economics, Columbia University

Chris Tilly, University of California, Los Angeles

Mark Thoma, University of Oregon

Laura Tyson, University of California, Berkeley.

Leanne Ussher, Queens College

Marjolein Van Der Veen, Bellevue College

Rudi von Arnim, University of Utah

Tonia Warnecke, Rollins College

John Weeks, University of London, Emeritus

David Weiman, Columbia University

Sean Wilentz, Princeton University

Martin H. Wolfson, University of Notre Dame

Linda Wilcox Young, Southern Oregon University

Mark Zandi, Moody’s Economy.com

Ben Zipperer, University of Massachusetts, Amherst

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